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A French Exception :

A French Exception : . Mind-mapping in the cyberspatial dimension Katherine Watson, Coastline Distance Learning. 1. A French exception : Mind-mapping history. It’s older than you may think! Age depends upon definition : Porphyry’s “trees” Llull’s “discs” Novak’s “concept maps”

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A French Exception :

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  1. A French Exception: Mind-mapping in the cyberspatial dimension Katherine Watson, Coastline Distance Learning 1

  2. A French exception: Mind-mapping history It’s older than you may think! Age depends upon definition: • Porphyry’s “trees” • Llull’s “discs” • Novak’s “concept maps” • Buzan’s “mind maps” • Le Bihan’s “schémasheuristiques” 2

  3. A French exception: Mind-mapping in diverse dimensions • Common modern uses of mind-mapping à la Tony Buzan • Business plans • Web designs and their purpose(s) • Note-taking in class • Meetings, discussions • Quick, efficient information review 3

  4. A French exception: Mind-mapping in a new dimension • French ways of reasoning: Good for mind-mapping! • Vermicular v. top-down linear • Multiple branches, transdisciplinarity • Inviting to interrogation 4

  5. A French exception: Mind-mapping General process: Physical manifestation of ideas—Five Buzan “rules” for mind-mapping • Start with blank piece of paper • Lay paper landscape-style • Start in the center, drawing an image of your own choosing, representing your main idea/topic • Think up key words related to central topic; write these around the main topics; these are “nodes” • Draw lines or arrows in color, showing connections between ideas 5

  6. A French exception: Mind-mapping • General process across cultures and across disciplines: Two-dimensionalizing the three-dimensional • Imagine your idea three-dimensionally • Imagine organically, adding new branches • Follow cross-cultural design standards 6

  7. A French exception: Mind maps • 7 cross-cultural design rules from L’Ecolefrançaise de l’heuristique: • Paper layout: Blank, white paper in landscape format: FrédéricLeBihan, of the EFH notes “we take greater advantage of the breadth of the visual field than of its height.” • Drawing/writing implements: Color is important; black pens or crayons are ok, as long as enough color appears elsewhere. • “Core”: Central idea in the middle of the paper, expressed in one word, if possible. This is the theme, the “trigger” to logical association • “Branches”: Lines emanating from the core organically, “inspired from nature” • Words: Chosen for evocative tone; written clearly by hand, a single word on a branch for simplicity and clarity, again serving as associative triggers • Images: To be treated as pictograms, but may be photos; “there is no need to be an artist in all this; simplicity and evocativity are important”. • Color: Primary colors and black most apparent, though colors expressing the mind-mapper’s emotional connection to the topic might act as memory triggers; color helps readability, also stimulating the right cerebral hemisphere in a logical map created by the left side of the brain.

  8. A French exception: Mind maps 8

  9. A French exception: Mind mapping 9

  10. A French exception: mind maps in diverse disciplines

  11. Mind maps in the USA &Francophone countries differ by design: First, USA… 11

  12. France: créativité 12

  13. A French Exception: Mind maps across disciplinary dimensions! • French maps use harmonious colors, words • French maps unite ideas

  14. Mind maps: Why and how? • Use the logic of associations, not of time • Use images for creative thinking and memory • Usecolor,dimension • Usesynesthesia • Provoke good brainstorms

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